We setup a Lemmy instance at https://news.cosocial.ca

Consider this to be a test install, with best effort support of keeping the server up.

We’ll put up a more public announcement on the CoSocial blog once the tech ops and trust & safety team has had time to do some setup and testing of the system.

As with the CoSocial Mastodon server, It is only available for moderated sign up by CoSocial members.

We do invite existing CoSocial members to sign up, create communities, and add links and discussion.

We hope to be able to use this @cosocial community for open discussion and collaboration for members about our jointly owned co-op!

  • Boris MannOPMAEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    So, a bunch of people signed up to test, thank you!

    We’re still troubleshooting the setup in different ways, including email notification and initial sign up. I did hit approve on the first set of people, who likely won’t get an email notification.

    There are various sign in bugs that it looks like LemmyCa is also experiencing in part https://lemmy.ca/post/710416

    Feel free to post issues here in the comments or start a new post in this community.

    EDIT: You have to comment or post before we can make you an admin or mod – so please do that on this post!

  • HubEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    This is cool. Thank you so much for setting it up.

    However I’m wondering if it’s a config problem or what, but I can’t find the communities that are not on lemmy.ca. For example !rust@lemmy.ml or !rustlang@lemmyrs.org Search does not find them and they don’t appear in the remote community list.

    • Boris MannOPMAEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I found it extremely flaky in finding anything. I did eventually get it to find the LemmyCa ones and now they’re visible locally.

      I would put in @vancouver@lemmy.ca or !vancouver@lemmy.ca — the former is what you search on Mastodon to follow, the latter autocompletes when writing in here — and then it wouldn’t find anything and I’d come back to the tab and it would find it.

      I’ll try and subscribe to those two you linked as well.

      • Boris MannOPMAEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Ok @hub@news.cosocial.ca it looks like I need to allow list servers for them to be searched for. And! That when searching one often has to wait a moment or search twice.

        I searched for and subscribed to both of those examples you gave (and allowlisted their hosts), so you should be able to easily find them.

        Feel free to ask for more hosts to allowlist as needed.